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Q&A Using published pictures for a book based on a true story

I'm going to write a book based on a true story. I want to know if for a book cover I could use real photos of the people who were in that story. They are dead but their pictures are published on ...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by user39779‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A What matters more when it comes to book covers? Is it ‘professional quality’ or relevancy?

This is a sort of follow up to my previous question. It is generally understood that covers matter a great deal in terms of getting people to click on a fiction eBook and check out its blurb and co...

3 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user394536‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is it true that a great cover is enough to sell many copies of your book

I've come across podcasts and internet articles about self-publishing in which they basically say that books with fantastic covers and interesting blurbs tend to sell lots of copies even if the act...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by user394536‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Is a tag line useful on a cover?

I am playing around with cover art ideas and have some that are quite interesting. I have added a brief tag line, not quite a subtitle, to the cover to indicate the genre. Frankly, the artistic pho...

1 answer  ·  posted 5y ago by Rasdashan‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Use of stock image on book cover

My book was published by a now defunct publisher. They returned my records to me (locked, and I could not open any of the documents) and I've since re-published my title under my own name. Howeve...

0 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by Author‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Outsourcing people to make a cover [closed]

I need some very specific art for my book cover and will probably not be able to find a generic one on a website, so do I hire someone for it and what's the average hourly wage for hiring one? How ...

2 answers  ·  posted 5y ago by repomonster‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A Are there any free sites for testing beta 'book cover' designs?

The LONG road to publishing a novel is nearing an end. But writing a novel is actually only the beginning; editing, formatting, compiling and marketing the novel makes the initial task of writing s...

0 answers  ·  posted 6y ago by Richard Stanzak‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do existing covers compare to possible new ones?

I have a fairly large collection of titles on Amazon, and I'm wondering whether I should by my own efforts replace them with covers I've made myself by services like canva.com. I have an MFA friend...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Christos Hayward‭  ·  last activity 4y ago by System‭